Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942 AC.0475 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit May 27, 200 Describing Archives: A Content Standard Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections MIT Libraries Building 4N-8 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, Massachusetts, 0239-4307 67.253.5690 mithistory@mit.edu
Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Table of Contents Summary Information... 3 Historical note...4 Scope and Contents of the Collection...4 Administrative Information...4 Related Materials... 5 Controlled Access Headings...5 Bibliography...6 Collection Inventory... 7 - Page 2 -
Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Summary Information Repository Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections Creator Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture Title Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture curricula Date [inclusive] 866-942 Extent 0.5 cubic feet ( manuscript box, flat box) Location Materials are stored off-site. Advance notice is required for use. Language English Citation Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture Curricula, AC 475, box X. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute Archives and Special Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts. - Page 3 -
Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Historical note The first architecture faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was William R. Ware, appointed in the fall of 865 to plan the curriculum of the first architecture school in the United States. Funds were supplied partly by MIT and partly from private sources for William Ware to visit Europe to examine educational programs and purchase supplies; thus classes were not held until October 868. In 932 the School of Architecture was established as part of the general academic reorganization of the Institute proposed by President Karl T. Compton. It consisted of the Department of Architecture and later the Department of City Planning (now Urban Studies and Planning). Scope and Contents of the Collection A notable item in this collection is a document of 866, Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction, a pamphlet containing William R. Ware s early plans for an architecture curriculum in the beginning years of the Massachsetts Institute of Technology. The curricula collection was assembled from a variety of sources in the MIT Libraries. More complete information about classes in all years can be found in the Annual Catalog of the Institute. Administrative Information Publication Information Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute Archives and Special Collections Revision Description 2009 Access note The collection is open for research. - Page 4 -
Intellectual Property Rights Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Access to collections in the Institute Archives and Special Collections is not authorization to publish. Separate written application for permission to publish must be made to the Institute Archives. Copyright of some items in this collection may be held by respective creators, not by the creating office. Related Materials Related Archival Materials note Massachusetts Department of Architecture reports, Institute Archives and Special Collections, AC 260. Massachusetts School of Architecture and Planning, Architecture Education Study records, Institute Archives and Special Collections, AC 08. Massachusetts School of Architecture and Planning, Office of the Dean records, Institute Archives and Special Collections, AC 400. Massachusetts Department of Urban Studies and Planning curricula. Institute Archives and Special Collections, AC 377. Controlled Access Headings Corporate Name(s) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture Personal Name(s) Ware, William R. (William Robert), 832-95 Subject(s) Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Curricula. - Page 5 -
Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Massachusetts Institute of Technology--History. Bibliography Shillaber, Caroline. Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning, 86-96: a hundred year chronicle. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 963. - Page 6 -
Guide to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Architecture Curricula, 866-942... Collection Inventory An Outline of a Course of Architectural Instruction, by William R. Ware 866 Course descriptions 883-884 Catalog of the Library of the Department of Architecture 892 Notes on perspective circa 893 Landscape Architecture, preliminary announcement circa 900 Notes on the drafting of masonry structures 92 Outline of a course in land economics, Ec 85 circa 935 Surveys and graphs of current and proposed curriculum 890-942 Box 2 - Page 7 -